Turntable Nostalgia

I miss my turntables.

I never really wanted to dj. I didn’t like mixing out at first. I just really like loud electronic music and mixing records was a way to hear the tracks that I wanted to hear on a really loud sound-system. When you’re a foreign kid that moves around a lot and is always new to school, you try your hardest not to do activities that make people stare at you for long periods of time.

As time went on, I joined a bunch of great crews and started to really enjoy mixing with them and learned to like bits and pieces of the whole djing culture. Once I started graduate school, it became difficult to keep up with that lifestyle. I worked all the time and had a ton of homework so I couldn’t feasibly justify staying out til 4am. I barely sleep as it is and decided I would much rather go to bed than rave. #oldpeopleproblems

Now that I don’t mix out any more, one of my favourite pastimes is long ass bedroom mix sessions. All my stuff is at my mum’s house and I have my turntables nicely set up in my bedroom in the basement. Before I moved to Japan, I was just a jobless offspring eating all my mum’s food and would spend my time posted up in my room, doing 4, 5+ hour mixing sessions. I would be like “Ooh, lets do all Virus Recordings today,” or “This feels like a Formation Records day”.

It’s rainy out today and I really wish I could just have a marathon mix session.